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Labor vote in steel industry first election tests union split
Rex Davis casts a ballot in the first federal election within the steel industry to decide if collective bargaining should be by the company union or the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers. The union side wins 237 to 134 as workers line up at a lunch hour polling place in Hunt, West Virginia.
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Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers
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